Croatian, Bosnian Serbs In Attack

September 08, 1994

Croatian and Bosnian Serb forces simultaneously invaded the Bosnian Muslim enclave of Bihac Thursday, UN officials said. The Serbs punched deep into the northwest Bosnian enclave in fighting that was alarming because it involved Croatian rebel Serbs for the first time, a UN peacekeeping spokesman told Reuters. Earlier Thursday, two British Royal Navy Sea Harrier jump jets came under missile fire over Bihac, a so-called UN safe area, but were not hit. Paul Risley, a spokesman UN Protection Force, said shoulder-launched missiles fired at the jets came from territory freshly taken by the Bosnian Serbs.